My problem with the 10mm and .40 is that I can't shoot follow up shots as fast as I can with 9mm and .45. So, I carry 9mm or .45 depending upon where I'm going and what I'm wearing to conceal the pistol. If I'm going walk-about, where there could be black bears, feral pigs, etc. I take my .41 magnum or .460 Rowland.

I think choice of caliber has more to do with usage than just a simplistic "which one is better" choice.

I guess in the back of my mind I am a bit of caliber snob.
Though I dont feel under gunned with a 9mm Im not sure I would want one that only carried say 8 rounds of hp while im comfortable with 8 rounds of 45 hp.
I wouldnt be with 5 rounds of 45 hp but totally comfortable with 5 rounds of 357 125 hp. Really doesnt make sense I dont guess but it is what it is.
My ED carry is a 45 at the present though. 8 plus 1

Just don't let people talk you out of a 9mm....there are a hell of a lot of dead guys laying all over the battlefields of Europe that are REAL dead from a 9mm....and thats back before we had the great ammo we have today.... 9 is fine.....

Completely different usage. Actually, the .41 isn't too bad. It's an 8-3/8 inch Smith that's been ported. The .460 is a handful even with porting. But I'm not using either gun for competition or concealed carry. Which was my point - you need to choose the gun for it's use and not just for being a certain caliber. Both of those guns are too big for easy concealed carry, and neither caliber is needed for self defense or competition use.

I guess in the back of my mind I am a bit of caliber snob.
Though I dont feel under gunned with a 9mm Im not sure I would want one that only carried say 8 rounds of hp while im comfortable with 8 rounds of 45 hp.
I wouldnt be with 5 rounds of 45 hp but totally comfortable with 5 rounds of 357 125 hp. Really doesnt make sense I dont guess but it is what it is.
My ED carry is a 45 at the present though. 8 plus 1

Actually that makes perfect sense. You are the only one that needs to feel comfortable in what you carry. Others' opinions should make no difference in that, they need to be comfortable in what they carry.

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...I carry a .22, 9mm, .40. I own two 9mm's. I really am comfortable carrying as small as my 22, but I really prefer the 9mm. Had a .45 Springfield Loaded and that dang thing, (obviously) weighed way too much for me to comfortably carry.

If you want to see a war over size, go to one of the Harley Davidson forums. Jeez, size really matters over on those.

A CZ75, is a darn good emulation of a Browning Hi Power, and was a Soviet Bloc pistol, until the wall fell. The 9mm Parabellum round has been around near one hundred years now, and has worked successfully in WW1, WW2, Falklands, and quite a few places of darkness in the night.

Never mind those that want you to walk THEIR chosen path. THEY are NOT you!

I guess I can be classified as a caliber snob, I do tend to buy more .40's then other calibers. I favor the .40 more since that was the caliber of my first gun and the fact that ammo for it is usually a little more readily available then 9mm or 45.

But with that being said, I also don't look down on other calibers. A look in my safe will show that I will buy other calibers (.38, .380. 9mm, 10mm, and 45acp). I like to think that each caliber is equally useful if used correctly.

I have owned rifles and shotguns since I was a kid but did not purchase a handgun until 2007 when I was 48. Just about everyone I talked to recommended a .40 but I went with a 9MM. The reason is because after shooting both I felt I would be more accurate with a 9MM. And just as important was the fact that the ammo is much less expensive than .40 where I live. To me it was more important to shoot a lot which the 9 allowed me to do. I then purchased a .22 for my son. I could care less what anyone thinks about the pistols I shoot. I now own two 9MM's, two Colt .38 Specials, a .380, a 9MM Makarov and a .22. I enjoy shooting the .22 the most because it is so easy to shoot accurately.

One thing that I find interesting is the caliber debate and all the people online that talk about how you need a cannon for self defense. How many of these people have actually shot someone? I am willing to bet that the percentage of people who have actually shot someone is too small to calculate. I have a neighbor that I also attend church with who is a legend in the police department he works for. The police force services a city of 750,000 people and he is the only officer on the force to have killed two people in the line of duty. And there are only a handful of officers on the force that have killed, much less shot one person. Like most police forces, this one uses .40 caliber Glock's. So I would truly like to know from what experience or knowledge base the big caliber worshipers are drawing their conclusions from - OTHER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE READ.

Okay, I have opened myself up. Let me have it.

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